2:00PM Water Cooler 10/3/2022 | naked capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente

Patient readers, I have been very busy kicking CDC’s twitching corpse, and so I must beg your indulgence with an open thread. Talk amongst yourselves! –lambert

Contact information for plants: Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) find out how to send me a check if you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to find out how to send me images of plants. Vegetables are fine! Fungi and coral are deemed to be honorary plants! If you want your handle to appear as a credit, please place it at the start of your mail in parentheses: (thus). Otherwise, I will anonymize by using your initials. See the previous Water Cooler (with plant) here. From HL:

HL writes: “Sedum in my mom’s yard in Oregon with a whitebanded crab spider. He’s no doubt waiting for the many insects drumlin woodchuckles discussed that hang out on his sedum and goldenrod.”

Readers, I’m running a bit short on plants. Surely people have photos of autumn leaves, or of their gardens? Whether yield, or buttoned up for the winter? But send whatever you like! –lambert

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